EU VAT Number Validator (VIES) with Company Name
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EU VAT Number Validator (VIES) with Company Name
Check EU VAT numbers in bulk against VIES, the European Commission's official system: valid or not, plus the registered company name and address where the country publishes them. Format check for all 27 EU countries and Northern Ireland (XI). Retries busy national systems.
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Check EU VAT numbers in bulk against VIES, the European Commission's official VAT Information Exchange System. For each number you get whether it is valid for intra-EU trade and, where the member state publishes them, the registered company name and address. Every number also gets a format check first, so typos are caught instantly.
$2 per 1,000 numbers checked. Invalid and badly formatted numbers count (that's the answer you need); numbers VIES can't answer because a national system is down are free.
Good for
- E-commerce and SaaS billing: confirm a customer's VAT number before applying the reverse charge
- Accounting and finance teams: clean supplier and customer master data
- KYB checks: confirm a company's registered name and address
Output (one row per number)
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
valid | true if VIES confirms the number is active for intra-EU trade |
fullVatNumber, country, vatNumber | The normalised number (Greece uses the prefix EL) |
companyName, companyAddress | As registered, when the country shares them (Germany and Spain, for example, do not) |
reason | Why a number is not valid: wrong format, not registered, UK number, missing prefix |
viesRequestDate | Date of the VIES check |
status | ok, or vies_unavailable (free) when the national system didn't answer after retries |
Input
- VAT numbers: with country prefix. Spaces, dots and dashes are removed for you.
- Default country: optional, for numbers without a prefix.
Notes and limits
- VIES only covers the 27 EU member states and Northern Ireland (
XI). UK (GB) numbers have not been in VIES since Brexit; they're flagged as such and not sent to VIES. - National systems behind VIES sometimes go offline or throttle (
MS_UNAVAILABLE,MS_MAX_CONCURRENT_REQ). The tool retries with pauses, and only reportsvies_unavailable(free) if the country still doesn't answer. - A valid VIES result means the number is registered for intra-EU transactions; it is not a full tax-compliance check.
